Post a pet peeve.

[BruTak]

Then there was the Great Electric Fire Argument of 2018.

We've a small electric fire in the living room. I sometimes put it on for half an hour or so in winter while I have my breakfast.

One time, mum comes puttering in and insists I'm using it wrong.

Note that the fire only has three buttons on the control panel - on/off, low heat, and high heat.

[Falcon Horus]

Then there was the Great Electric Fire Argument of 2018.

We've a small electric fire in the living room. I sometimes put it on for half an hour or so in winter while I have my breakfast.

One time, mum comes puttering in and insists I'm using it wrong.

Note that the fire only has three buttons on the control panel - on/off, low heat, and high heat.

Mum's always right, you know.

[jelgate]

FH for not continuing the rewatch is my current pet peeve

[Falcon Horus]

FH for not continuing the rewatch is my current pet peeve

Then I have good news... we're moving forward from this weekend onward.
And I don't plan to stop until the end credits of Stargate Origins roll across the screen -- in a manner of speaking (5 years from now).

[BruTak]

Phone scammers.

Just got a call on the landline, allegedly from the "BT Technical Department", saying that my internet is about to be cut off.

Hah! Yeah right!

I don't get my home internet from BT. I don't get my mobile phone internet from BT.

So, yeah, nice try.

[BruTak]

Narrow bathrooms in hotel rooms!

I've been in Edinburgh all weekend for Edinburgh Comic Con, and I'm staying at the Apex Hotel in the Haymarket area of the city. It's about fifteen minutes walk away from the venue.

I've no quibbles with the rest of my room. The bed is really comfy. Plenty of space to move around in. A big TV. Plenty of electrical sockets to charge my tech.

However - and I don't want to go into graphic detail here, and have one of the Mods chew my ear off - the bathroom is tiny!

When I sit for a "Number 2", my right elbow is resting on the wash basin, and my left elbow on the toilet roll dispenser.

I tell you, I damn near had to dislocate my shoulder in order to wipe my own backside.

[Chaka-Z0]

I tell you, I damn near had to dislocate my shoulder in order to wipe my own backside.

Man thanks for the laugh. So to recap, you basically took a dump in the cobra kung-fu stance?

Hilarious.

[BruTak]

Basically, yeah.

I mean, fair enough I'm carrying a wee bit more weight than is good for me, and I've a bit of a belly, but honestly...

[ScifigirlSG]

As the Peeve continues..

Still no Founders Patch from Stargate Command, and the cost of renewing is going up to $36 from $20. Glad I don't have auto renew.

[BruTak]

My mother complaining about trivial stuff yet again.

Apparently, when he was over on Sunday afternoon, while he was helping mum change the sheets on her bed, my brother opened her bedroom windows.

Mum doesn't like open windows. She has this strange notion that the act of opening and closing a window somehow damages it.

So, now it's Wednesday afternoon, and she's moaning at me about it. All but accusing him of trying to kill her off.

I'm opening and closing her windows, locking and unlocking them, and she's standing at my back complaining that I'm not doing it right.

[Annoyed]

Mum doesn't like open windows. She has this strange notion that the act of opening and closing a window somehow damages it.

Well, she's right. With any moving object, there is mechanical wear...

[mad_gater]

Narrow bathrooms in hotel rooms!

I've been in Edinburgh all weekend for Edinburgh Comic Con, and I'm staying at the Apex Hotel in the Haymarket area of the city. It's about fifteen minutes walk away from the venue.

I've no quibbles with the rest of my room. The bed is really comfy. Plenty of space to move around in. A big TV. Plenty of electrical sockets to charge my tech.

However - and I don't want to go into graphic detail here, and have one of the Mods chew my ear off - the bathroom is tiny!

When I sit for a "Number 2", my right elbow is resting on the wash basin, and my left elbow on the toilet roll dispenser.

I tell you, I damn near had to dislocate my shoulder in order to wipe my own backside.

porta potties are even worse....same lack of maneuvering room AND the added "bonus" of a rather malodorous environment

[Falcon Horus]

Still no Founders Patch from Stargate Command, and the cost of renewing is going up to $36 from $20. Glad I don't have auto renew.

I thought they were send at the end of March -- or so I thought I last read on the feed.

Since you renewed, you were automatically given 3 months extra + the title of "Original Gater" + Founding member patch + all-access.

Which when I put it that way, and the price for a year really is going to be 36$, every Original Gater would be paying more for less months, in comparison to someone getting a year or 12 months for 36 dollars.

....

Peeve stands...

[BruTak]

Idiot online customer services.

I ordered a couple of items from a website this morning, but apparently payment won't go through until I send them a copy of a bank statement showing that I've ordered from them before.

Which is all very well, I suppose. But the thing is I haven't ordered from this particular site before.

And can customer services wrap their brains round this? No. They cannot.

[Annoyed]

Idiot online customer services.

I ordered a couple of items from a website this morning, but apparently payment won't go through until I send them a copy of a bank statement showing that I've ordered from them before.

Which is all very well, I suppose. But the thing is I haven't ordered from this particular site before.

And can customer services wrap their brains round this? No. They cannot.

Do you really need to buy whatever it is from that site?
That is the only message businesses understand, if they understand anything at all. Customers leaving.